It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.